Toilet-paper holder



(No Model) P. H. HOBERG.

TOILET PAPER HOLDER.

Patented May 25, 1897.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK II. HOBERG, OF GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN.

TOILET-PAPER HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 583,212, dated May 25, 1897.

Application filed June 30, 1896. Serial No. 597,527. (No model.)

, simple and cheap mechanism which Will not only support the roll, but which Will permit of its removal and the insertion of new rolls' without being taken apart, and which will also resist the movement ofthe roll upon its axis sufficiently to cause the perforated sheets of paper to tear off.

In the following description reference is had to the accompanying drawings,in which- Figure 1 is a front View of my invention, with dotted lines indicating the position of the roll. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, showing clearly the channeled holding-bars and the spring-rod engaged in the channels. Fig. 3 isacrosssection of one of the holdingbars.

Reference -letters are used consistently throughout all the views.

A plate A is attached to a back boardB and provided with hooked hinge-flanges C, in which the hooked or bent ends of the holdingbars D are adapted to engage. The bars D are provided with longitudinal channels E in their outer surface, in which the wire springrod F engages for connecting the inner ends of the bars, holding them in the hooks O, and

for pressing the free ends of the bars in-- wardly to engage the sides of the paper roll. By this construction I am enabled to form the bars D of cast metal, and the user can replace the springs atpleasure as often as they become weakened or broken. This is a great advantage, as users often pull the bars apart with suddenness or with unnecessary force and thus break the springs; but, as ordinary spring-wire may be used in my device, and such wire may be found in or about nearly every household, it is evident that my device may be easily repaired, while in all other holders of this class, so far as I am aware, a journey to the store or repair-shop is necessitated whenever such holder becomes weakened or broken. The free ends of the bars D are provided with holding-thimbles G, which engage in the center of the roll at each end and permit the same to rotate upon them. The roll is inserted in the bars by springing them apart, and the paper is drawn off by pulling the free end of the strip. The roll is held between the bars with sufficient firmness to cause the paper to tear off in sheets along the perforated lines.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination of the plate A, provided with hooked hinge-flanges O, holdingbars D provided with hooked or bent ends adapted to engage in the rear of the flanges C and having longitudinal spring-engaging channels E in their outer surface, a wire spring-rod F connecting the holding-bars and engaging in said channels to press the bars inwardly toward each other and holding-thinlbles G projecting inwardly from the outer ends of the bars and adapted to engage the roll, substantially as described.

2. A toilet-paper holder, comprising a suitable support, holding-bars hinged to said support and provided with holding-thimbles adapted to engage the paper roll between them, and a Wire spring-rod connecting the bars and engaged in longitudinal channelsin the out-er surface of the bars, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

FRANK H. HOBERG.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN P. REUBER, ARTHUR O. NEVILLE. 

